NSW bareback rider Ben Hall easily won the bareback bronc pro tour buckle this year but won’t get it all his own way in the Warwick Rodeo APRA National Finals on October 26-29. The top 15 riders in all eight championship events do battle in the national finals at the Warwick Showgrounds.
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Hall goes into the final after a fourth at Cloncurry and a sixth in Mount Isa and will come up against Wandoan cowboy David Worsfold who won at Taroom and was fifth at Mount Isa.
Worsfold has won the bareback title for the past two years at the nationals and was second in the pro tour.
Fred Osman hails from Cameron’s Corner and won three of the four rounds at the 2014 national finals to win his first title. Osman goes go into the finals with a first and second in the rounds and first in the aggregate at Mount Isa in August. His score of 84.5 to win round 2 was the only score in the 80s at Mount Isa.
Queenslander Deon Lane is fifth after winning at Richmond and Cloncurry.
The format for the finals is designed to give every rider a chance to win the title but the advantage is with the pro tour leaders who takes the most points into the finals battle.